About the Authors:
Alistair
Gray is from Sunderland He studied
pharmacy at Sunderland Polytechnic, graduating in 19BB with first-c1ass honors, and then completed his pre-registration year with Boots in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He continued working for Boots in a variety of pharmacy
and store management positions in the north-west of England. In 2002 he changed disciplines and
became Community Services Pharmacist at Queens Park Hospital in Blackburn. He
completed a Diploma in Clinical and Health Services Pharmacy at the University
of Manchester in 2008 and subsequently became Clinical Service Lead Pharmacist
for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust in 2009, based at the now renamed Royal
Blackburn Hospital. In 2012 he received the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's
Medicines Safety Award for work in Transfer of Care. His interest in this area
has continued, resulting in him conceiving what has become the
Refer-to-Pharmacy scheme.
Alistair is married with two children and loves
spending time with his family. He follows Formula One motor racing closely and
enjoys reading, eating out, going to the movies, playing the guitar and song
writing (best bits at https://soundcloud.com/A1-Chemist).
Jane
Wright, after working for 18 years in the
Civil Service, attended the University of Manchester to study pharmacy Jane
graduated in 1994 and did her pre-registration year at the Royal Preston
Hospital. For the next 10 years Jane worked in Blackburn hospitals in a variety
of clinical roles, her last being Clinical Services Manager with responsibility
for education and training. In 1999 she obtained a Diploma in Clinical and
Health Services Pharmacy at the University of Manchester. She moved to
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust in April 2005 where she was employed as
Lead Pharmacist for East Lancashire until retirement in October 2014. Since
then she has returned to work part-time as a non-medical prescriber in the Memory Assessment Service at
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Jane is married and in her spare time enjoys
playing with Molly and Polly (two very lively dogs).
Lynn
Bruce studied pharmacy at Aston
University. The first 20 years of her working life were based in secondary care
variously as medicines information pharmacist, clinical pharmacy lead, clinical
economist and latterly in various management positions. She migrated across the
divide to primary care in 1997, becoming primary care group and then primary
care trust prescribing advisor. Hospital clinical pharmacy beckoned her back to
secondary care in 2002: she is now Pharmacy Team Leader on the Medical
Assessment Unit at the Royal Blackburn Hospital.
Lynn is married and, when she's not writing
pharmacy books, loves studying wild life and travelling and is addicted to
puzzles of all types.
Jennifer
Oakley is from the Wilral, Merseyslde. She
studied pharmacy at Liverpool John Moore's University graduating in 2007 with a
first-class honors degree, and was jointly awarded the local RoyaI
Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain branch prize in 2OO7. She then went on
to complete her Postgraduate Clinical Diploma whilst undertalting a residency
at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals. Meeting her future husband led her to
Lancashire where she has worked in several roles, currently as an Antimicrobial
and Critical Care Pharmacist at East Lancashire Hospitals.
Jenny is recently married and enjoys travelling the
world and visiting exotic places. |
